Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes at the Austrian border...
Dean plunged into the combat training with his customary vigor. He had a theory that by the time the 44th reached the Siegfried Line most of the enlisted men who knew how to operate flamethrowers would probably be dead. He organized a flamethrower school for junior officers so they could train new technicians as the division moved along. At one of the training sessions, a young captain spilled napalm on his uniform, which promptly burst into flame. Dean knocked him down in the dirt to extinguish the fire, and some of the flaming liquid spilled on his own leg. Dean...
Like Tight Little Island, Titfield Thunderbolt catches the efforts of a small village trying to thwart the stuffiness of legal procedure. Faced with losing their venerated by uneconomical railroad service, the population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive...
...bill, according to Russell E. Train, clerk of the Ways and Means committee, "has an excellent chance of passage in January." He claims it currently has the tentative backing of the Treasury Department...
...Train emphasized that this proposal differs from the Multer Bill which is also being considered by the Ways and Means Committee...